“Lois: You're never gonna meet anyone hanging around here with the tactical nuclear family.”

— Alison Bechdel, book Dykes to Watch Out For

#419, "The Candidate" (2003), collected in Invasion of the DTWOF (2005).
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American cartoonist, author 1960

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